{"id":3045,"date":"2014-02-26T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:36:35","slug":"install-digikam-4-0-beta3-in-ubuntu-13-10-saucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/install-digikam-4-0-beta3-in-ubuntu-13-10-saucy\/","title":{"rendered":"Install digiKam 4.0 Beta3 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"digikam<\/a><\/p>\n

The photo management software digiKam 4.0.0 has reached its third beta release just a few hours ago. There will be also beta4 and RC releases, and the digiKam 4.0.0 final will be released on May 11.<\/b><\/p>\n

According to the release notes, following new features will be added in this version:<\/p>\n

  • A new tool dedicated to organize whole tag hierarchies. This new feature is relevant of\u00a0GoSC-2013 project<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Veaceslav Munteanu<\/b>. This project include also a back of Nepomuk support in digiKam broken since a while due to important KDE API changes. Veaceslav has also implemented multiple selection and multiple drag-n-drop capabilities on Tags Manager and Tags View from sidebars, and the support for writing face rectangles metadata in Windows Live Photo format.<\/li>\n
  • A new maintenance tool dedicated to parse image quality and auto-tags items automatically using Pick Labels. This tool is relevant to anotherGoSC-2013 project<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Gowtham Ashok<\/b>. This tool require feedback and hack to be finalized for this release.<\/li>\n
  • Showfoto thumbbar is now ported to Qt model\/view in order to switch later full digiKam code to Qt5. This project is relevant to another\u00a0GoSC-2013 project<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Mohamed Anwer<\/b>.<\/li>\n
  • A lots of work have been done into Import tool to fix several dysfunctions reported since a very long time. For example, The status to indicate which item have been already downloaded from the device is back. Thanks to\u00a0Teemu Rytilahti<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Islam Wazery<\/b>\u00a0to contribute. All fixes are not yet completed and the game continue until the next beta release.<\/li>\n
  • This release is now fully ported to Qt4 model-view and drop last Q3-Support classes. The last pending part was Image Editor Canvas ported and completed by\u00a0Yiou Wang<\/b>\u00a0through this\u00a0GoSC-2013 project<\/a>. In the future, port to Qt5 will be easy and quickly done, when KDE 5 API will stabilized and released.<\/li>\n

     
    \nInstall:<\/b>
    \nBesides building digiKam 4.0 from the     source tarball<\/a>. Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy users can install the beta release from the third-party PPA.<\/p>\n

    Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run the commands below to add the digiKam Beta repository:<\/p>\n

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:msylwester\/digikam-beta<\/pre>\n
    There’s also a stable PPA created by the maintainer. It will provide the digiKam 4.0.0 final build for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy and Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty. To add this PPA, run:<\/p>\n
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:msylwester\/digikam<\/pre>\n
    After adding the PPA, run the commands below to update package lists and install digiKam:<\/p>\n
    sudo apt-get update \n\nsudo apt-get install digikam<\/pre>\n
    That’s it. Check out the PPA packages on Launchpad page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    The photo management software digiKam 4.0.0 has reached its third beta release just a few hours ago. There will be also beta4 and RC releases, and the digiKam 4.0.0 final will be released on May 11. According to the release notes, following new features will be added in this version: A new tool dedicated to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[690,1033,37,855],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-digikam","tag-digikam-ppa","tag-ubuntu-13-10","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}